A white supremacist couple in North Carolina have been sentenced to consecutive life sentences after killing a registered sex offender and his wife.

Jeremy Lee Moody and Christine Moody admitted to purposefully targeting and killing a couple in July of last year.

The couple admitted to killing Marvin Parker, 59, and his wife Gretchen Dawn Parker, 51, and said that they chose their victims because he was a registered sex offender.

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Horrific: Jeremy and Christine Moody (seen in court today) admitted to killing a sex offender and his wife and though they are self-proclaimed 'skinheads' they say that the local white supremacist group that they are affiliated with did not have a role in the murders

Appalling: The couple said later after the sentencing that they had a second sex offender target in mind and added that the female victim was 'a casualty of war' since they really wanted to kill her sex offender husband

Delusions: Jeremy Moody's lawyer said that at the time of the slaying, he 'felt he was the right hand of God'

Acted alone: Though they had personal connections to a local supremacist group, Crew 41, which the Southern Poverty Law Center notes has a history of targeting sex offenders, the Moodys claimed that the Parkers murder had nothing to do with the group. Pictured are Jeremy and Christine Moody's mugshots from their July arrests in Union County

They were unrepentant at the sentencing on Tuesday and even kissed after being sentenced to two consecutive life sentences each.

Initially, Jeremy and Christine Moody apologised to the judge and asked for a 30-year sentence so they could see their children and grow old together.

But after Union County Judge Lee Alford handed down the maximum punishment, they showed how they really felt.

'See you perverts later,' Jeremy Moody shouted at Charles Parker's family as he walked out of court. 'That's what child molesters get.'

'They got exactly what they deserve,' Jeremy also told reporter.

'Had to do it over again, I'd kill more.'

'I think Jeremy and I would have done it again if given the opportunity,' Christine Moody said to reporters.

'I have no regrets. Killing that pedophile was the best day of my life.'

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If authorities had not acted fast enough, they may have: Christine Moody said that they had another sex offender in mind as their third victim but were caught in connection to the Parker killings before they could strike again.

Though they had personal connections to a local supremacist group, Crew 41, which the Southern Poverty Law Center notes has a history of targeting sex offenders, the Moodys claimed that the Parkers murder had nothing to do with the group.

Happy for themselves: The couple smiled and kissed one another as they were awarded consecutive life sentences in a Union County, South Carolina court on Tuesday for the July murder of Marvin and Gretchen Parker

Medical conditions: Jeremy Moody's lawyer says he is bipolar and schizophrenic (left) while Christine Moody is said to have PTSD and borderline personality disorder (right)

Union County Sheriff David Taylor told the SPLC that Jeremy shot both of the victims while Christine slit the wife's throat after they told Parker and his wife exactly why they were going to kill them.

A surveillance camera on Parker's land caught them leaving, and deputies recognised Jeremy Moody from the word 'skinhead' tattooed on his neck and the 'Made in America' tattoo on the side of his head.

Lawyers said both defendants were sexually abused as children and that made them want revenge against the type of people who hurt them.

They believed they had a divine assignment to kill all sex offenders, said psychologist Harold Morgan, who analyzed Jeremy Moody.

After he was arrested, Jeremy Moody directed investigators to a sheet of paper in his home. He wrote the name and address of another sex offender, telling police he was going to kill that person the next day if he had not been arrested.

The Parkers were killed on a Sunday and he planned the next murder for that Wednesday.

Brackett said the Moodys had no right to act as a judge and a jury after Parker had already served a sentence for taking advantage of a disabled woman.

Crew 41 is believed to be a loosely
associated group that connects largely online, but they had their first
meet-and-greet scheduled for August in Nebraska, and the Moodys
apparently planned to attend after the July 21 double murder.

Sheriff
Taylor went on to explain that Christine Moody, who was 36-years-old at
the time of the murder, said that Gretchen Parker 'was a casualty of
war'.

Target: Marvin Charles Parker (left) and his wife Gretchen Dawn Parker (right) were killed in their home in July and the Moodys said Marvin's sex offender status is what led them to target him

Outside of reading the 69th Psalm from the Bible and letters from their church members, the couple showed little remorse.

They smiled and looked longingly at each other during the hearing.

Jeremy
Moody smirked as members of the Parker family asked the judge for the
maximum sentence. When the judge asked Christina Moody the standard
question of whether anyone offered her anything for plea, she answered
'just fame and fortune.'

The couple told authorities they had killed others, but investigators found no evidence of other crimes, Brackett said.

Defense
lawyers pointed out Christine Moody was a breast cancer survivor who
underwent a double mastectomy four years ago and Jeremy Moody suffered
from schizophrenia and was not on his medicine when the killings took
place.

When Moody, who was 30 at the time of the
murder, does not take his prescribed medication, he suffers from
paranoia and delusions, according to his attorney Harry Dest.

Christine Moody has her own share of
medical conditions, in addition to cancer she has borderline
personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and antisocial
personality disorder.

Parker's family
didn't hear Jeremy Moody call them perverts because they were already
being taken out of the courtroom. They shrugged off his words outside.

'He
got what he deserved. He would kill again if he was let out,' said
Charles Parker's sister Brenda Franklin. 'He can say whatever he wants.
He's dying in prison.'

In this particular instance, Moody believed that he was acting as 'the right hand of God'.

According to the local Fox station, Charles Parker was listed as a registered sex offender after being convicted in 2003 of third-degree criminal sexual conduct involving a 31-year-old woman and was also convicted in a sexual assault case involving a child in 1991.